When a critical mass of conservatives are fired because of their associations with organizations labeled by the SPLC as hate groups, then and only then, will the right have nothing left to lose but to fight.
At some point all of us on FR will be linked to our screen names, FR will be labeled a hate group, and many of us will be fired because our companies don't want our sort of people working for them.
Then we will have to fight alongside The Proud Boys and the other alt-Right groups.
I admit that I am too afraid and too close to retirement to become openly antagonistic to the leftists. I speak my mind, but only among those who know me well.
The Occupy movement failed because it was too passive. All they did was block some entrances to some buildings. They basically did exactly what homeless people were already doing.
The Tea Party movement was a bit more successful as they actively supported specific candidates ... who unfortunately suffered one of three fates: unelected because viewed as too extreme, coopted by the swamp, or marginalized into meaningless committee appointments.
AntiFa and BLM are having much more success by using active violent tactics. The Black Panthers and other 60's groups had some success in advancing their agenda through violence and threats of violence, so why wouldn't we expect something like AntiFa and BLM to come about?
I don't see conservatives becoming violent. If every currently employed conservative went out on a walkout strike then that might send a message. What will most likely happen, however, is that we will be fired one-by-one and replaced by younger or immigrant workers. So our castigation will have little or no effect on the blessed economy.
So My vision is that we slowly sink into a European style quasi-socialist screw-topia. The final nail in the coffin will be the confiscation of guns which will happen despite the number of 2A stalwarts killed in standoffs with the police.
You make a lot of good points.
My fear is that if they are able to do so, they will selectively attack conservative’s finances.
People such as John Brennan would relish doing so. And Brennan and his ilk are not going away.